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Chennai, Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Friday said that his party has not rejected EVMs and is in favor of reforms in VVPAT.Responding to a question at a press conference here, Chidambaram said that in the Congress party's manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, 'we did not rule out...

New Delhi: Counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections will take place on Tuesday. Here's a brief description of the vote counting process.* Under Rule 54A of the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961, counting of postal ballots will first begin at the table of the Returning Officer (RO).* Only...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], After electronic voting machines (EVMs) were looted by a local mob in South 24 Parganas of West Bengal, Kolkata Police on Saturday claimed that the incident took place in the morning before the start of the voting process and Said that legal action has been taken...

Jaynagar (West Bengal) [India], An Asian News International Stringer, who was covering the last phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, suffered serious head injuries during a clash between TMC and BJP workers in Canning under Jayanaga Lok Sabha constituency. On the last day of voting, he...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], All India Trinamool Congress supporters raised slogans against BJP candidate from Kolkata North Lok Sabha seat Tapas Roy outside a polling booth in Kolkata on Saturday and alleged that the BJP had conducted proxy voting. Voting started at 7 am today. The nine seats...

South 24 Parganas (West Bengal) [India], Amid the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections that began at 7 am on Saturday, electronic voting machines (EVMs) were looted by a local mob and two VVPAT machines were thrown inside. Officials said, a pond in South 24 Parganas of West Bengal...

Khorda (Odisha) [India], Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Prashant Jagdev, who was arrested by the Odisha Police on Sunday, allegedly entered the polling booth and misbehaved with the presiding and polling officials, an official said. Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Avinash Kumar said Jagdev, who is an...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL alleging violation of voter privacy in the current election system, saying the petition had no merit.A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta dismissed the plea and told the petitioner's counsel that they had not read the April...

New Delhi [India], A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking review of its decision dismissing the plea for 100 per cent verification of votes of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with their Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trai (VVPAT) slips. Has been done. The plea in the review...

The review petition, filed under Article 137 of the Constitution, said that "the impugned order contains obvious mistakes and errors" and the decision should be reviewed.On April 26, a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said that while it acknowledged the fundamental right of...

New Delhi [India], Following the Supreme Court order, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has come up with a new protocol for management and storage of symbol loading units, officials said in its latest order on EVMs-VVPATs on Wednesday. Amid the controversy, the apex court had ordered that...

New Delhi: The Election Commission has introduced a new protocol for operation and storage of symbol loading units, following the Supreme Court directions which ordered that the machines should be sealed and secured in containers and along with the EVMs . It should be kept in the strongroom. At...

New Delhi [India], A case has been registered against Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Jitendra Awhad for posting a fake video alleging that ballots in paper slips generated through VVPAT in Manipur There was a discrepancy between button presses on the unit. Khurai...

Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], After the Supreme Court on Friday rejected petitions doubting the reliability of electronic voting machines, Madhya Pradesh BJP president and candidate from Khajuraho Lok Sabha constituency VD Sharma said Congress leaders are blaming EVMs for the defeat. Is...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea to revive paper balloting and 100 per cent cross-verification of votes cast on EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), saying that with the voting machines Suspicions regarding tampering were "unfounded". ,As the country...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said that since 2019, the Election Commission of India, barring one discrepancy, has not found a single case of vote mismatch or incorrect recording of votes on random VVPAT verification of five polling stations per assembly constituency. Is.Voter...

New Delhi: Former Chief Election Commissioners on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's order rejecting the plea to go back to the ballot paper system and full cross-verification of votes cast using EVMs with paper trail machines, and said The current system of collating results was adequate...

New Delhi: Giving voters physical access to VVPAT slips is problematic and impractical and will lead to misuse, malpractices and disputes, the Supreme Court said on Friday while rejecting a plea seeking 100 per cent counting of VVPAT slips by voters.It also rejected a plea seeking the right of...

In his judgment, Justice Sanjiv Khanna said, "The suspicion that EVMs can be configured or manipulated to lead to repeated or inaccurate recording of votes in favor of a particular candidate must be rejected."“We acknowledge the right of voters to question the functioning of EVMs, which are an...

New Delhi, as the country went to polls in the second round of Election 2024, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected petitions seeking full cross-verification of votes cast in EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). And said that any aspect of it is being "blindly disbelieved". The...